Roy Harold William Schupferling
Mar 9, 2013
On March 9 2013, Roy Schupferling passed away with family at his side. He was born in Hasbrook Heights New Jersey, November 27, 1933. Roy served in the Army in Fairbanks Alaska. He moved to Lompoc in 1960 and worked at Federal Electric for 35 years. He was a founding member of the Lompoc Model railroad club. He was also...
Anita L. Stegman
Mar 9, 2013
Anita Leone Stegman was born in Watervliet, Michigan on October 11, 1923. Her father, Adam Herman, died suddenly when Anita was four, and her mother moved Anita and her five siblings to Dodge City, Kansas, where there was extended family on her mother's side. Raised on a farm , Anita loved pastoral settings, the changes in the sky, and every...
Judith Ann Lee
Mar 6, 2013
Judith Ann Lee passed away Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in Santa Barbara, California at the age of 76. She went peacefully doing something she loved, as she was preparing flowers for the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show. Judy was born September 30, 1936, in San Francisco, California, and raised in Glendale, a California native. After high school she became a...
James Roger Bottroff
Mar 5, 2013
James Rodger Bottroff was born September 20, 1946 to Warren Joseph Bottroff and Violet Galloway Bottroff in Lompoc, California. He died peacefully at his home in the Applegate Valley, Oregon. He attended Rogue River Elementary School, Lompoc High School, and Allan Hancock College. He married Carolyn Sterling in 1966 at La Purisima Catholic Church. They had two children, Elizabeth and...
Cordelia Charlotte Lomnes
Mar 5, 2013
Cordelia Lomnes, 95, passed away Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at the Baptist Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Scotia, NY where she resided since March 2007. Cordelia was born December 16, 1917 in Minneapolis, MN to Ida and William Schumacher. She lived at the Glen Eddy Retirement Community in Niskayuna NY from June 2004 and was previously a longtime resident...
Berton "Ken" Gundersen
Mar 5, 2013
Although Ken was born in Chicago, his family moved back to Stavanger, Norway when he was three years old. Ken endured the hardships of the Nazi occupation during World War II and returned to the United States in 1948 to claim his American citizenship. Ken then served his country as a ship's electrician in the US Navy for four years...
Theodore Jaramillo Torres, Sr.
Mar 3, 2013
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, March 5, from 4 pm to 7 pm at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. Vigil on Tuesday, March 5 at 7 pm at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary. Services will be Wednesday, March 6 at 10 am at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary Chapel. Burial will follow at Lompoc District Cemetery.
Virginia Day
Feb 20, 2013
Virginia Patricia "Pat" Day February 29, 1944-Feb 20, 2013 Pat Day was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Leap Day, 1944, to John Daniel and Mary Virginia McCormack. She moved to California in 1971 and worked as a nurse at St. Francis Hospital before being stricken with a debilitating arthritic condition that took its toil on her life and her ability...
Florina Carrie Glidden
Feb 17, 2013
Florina Carrie Glidden of Lompoc died February 17, 2013 at the age of 94. Florina was born March 13, 1918 in Barre, Massachusetts to George and Margaret Marshall. She graduated from Barre High School in 1936 and completed her education to become a certified nurse's assistant. Formerly of Lexington, Massachusetts she has been a resident of Lompoc since 1944. She...
Edward George Schutz
Feb 15, 2013
Edward George Schutz, 83, a native of Lompoc, passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 15, 2013. He was born to Peter and Ruth Vance Schutz in a house on South E Street on December 5, 1929. Ed graduated from Lompoc High School in 1948 and served two years in the United States Navy. He owned and operated Ed's...
William Edward Murphy
Feb 15, 2013
William was born June 18, 1926 in Worcester, Massachusetts to Frank and Margaret Murphy. He died Friday, February 15, 2013. His early years were spent in Springfield, Massachusetts. When he was 12 years old a movie company came to Springfield trying to find a boy to star in the "Yearling". He had a screen test and got the part. Unfortunately...
Wray Dawson
Feb 8, 2013
Wray Dawson was born August 25, 1937 in Durham, North Carolina. He passed away on Friday, February 8, 2013 after a lengthy illness. Wray was the most loving, caring husband, father and friend anyone could ever hope for. He was a veteran of both the Korean and Vietnam wars and retired from the United States Air Force after 20 plus...
Faustino Aguilar
Feb 6, 2013
Faustino Aguilar of Lompoc died February 6, 2013 at the age of 86. Faustino was born July 27, 1926 in Mexico. He was a farmer for 53 years. Faustino is survived by his wife Maria S. Aguilar, eight sons, one daughter and 43 grandchildren. The visitation will be Friday, February 15, from 4 to 9pm with the recitation of the...
Lorayne Hauenstein
Feb 6, 2013
Lorayne Hauenstein, a long-time resident of Lompoc passed away February 6 - exactly 13 years to the day she lost her husband of 56 years, Ed Hauenstein. She and Ed moved to the Lompoc valley in 1947 and started Valley Tractor Company. Lorayne was born in Santa Ana, California on April 23, 1922. She is survived by her two children:...
Paricia C. Busse
Feb 4, 2013
Patricia C. Busse, 76, of Lompoc passed away suddenly on Monday, February 4, 2013. Pat was born in Orange, New Jersey on June 18, 1936. She arrived in Lompoc in 1967. In November of that year she married Albert Busse. Pat had two sons and to this union a third son, Alan was added. The family moved between Santa Barbara...
Mary Grande
Feb 2, 2013
Mary Elizabeth Gridean Grande died peacefully on February 2, 2013. She was born in Youngstown, Ohio on May 6, 1921 to Hilda and Alexander Gridean. As a baby she moved to Gardena, California, after a brief stop in Lompoc. When she started 10th grade, the family moved to Santa Barbara, where she graduated from Santa Barbara High. She studied and...
Jose Montes Calderon
Feb 1, 2013
Jose M. Calderon of Lompoc died Friday, February 1, 2013 at the age of 79. Jose was born January 25, 1934 in La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico. He has been a resident of Santa Barbara County for 30 years. The visitation will be on Thursday, February 7 at 5pm with the recitation of the rosary at 7pm at La Purisima Catholic...
Barbara Ruth Gauthier
Feb 1, 2013
Barbara Ruth (Maynard) Gauthier Barbara passed away on February 1, 2013 in Lompoc, California. She moved to Lompoc six years ago to be near the family that she loved. Barbara was born in Templeton, Massachusetts on July 7, 1925 to the late Leon and Henrietta (Viner) Maynard in the family home at Baptist Common. She graduated from the old Templeton...
Ruby Wynelle Williams
Jan 31, 2013
Ruby Wynelle Williams died on January 31, 2013, from a stroke at Cottage hospital. Nell had lived in Lompoc for 27 years. She returned to Lompoc after the death of her husband, Donnie Williams in 1985. They lived in Morro Bay and Trinidad where she was a pastor's wife. Services will be held on Thursday February 7, at First Southern...
Josie Martinez
Jan 30, 2013
Josie Martinez passed away peacefully with her sons at her side Wednesday Jan. 30, 2013. Josie was born in Lompoc California on December 19, 1927 to Ramon and Gavina Diaz. She attended school in San Luis Obispo. She married Gilbert "Spud" Martinez in October of 1947. She started working at Lompoc Hospital in 1978 and worked there for 10 years...
